On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:34, you wrote: > Say upon an OS having issues and needing to be re-installed, that it mucks > up the partition tables. > > Examples are partition magic saying init failed177: Partition's Drive > letter cannot be identified, and the RH installer saying that the partition > table is incorrect possibly due to being written with incorrect BIOS > information (or words to that effect). Some distros buggerize with the tables so that others cannot read them
> How would I go about repairing this? > Or even... can I repair this? boot the machine using a bootable cd or floppy such as a Tom's Root and Boot floppy or a lnx-bbc cd or a Knoppix disc. then issue the command:- fdisk -l If you get a sensible looking list of partitions you are probably rescueable. Otherwise not. Sorry, if so, in practice you have lost the lot.
